{"id":510862,"date":"2010-04-03T19:57:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T23:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f20\/weight-watchers-endorses-mcdonalds-41818\/"},"modified":"2010-04-03T19:57:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T23:57:54","slug":"weight-watchers-endorses-mcdonalds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/510862","title":{"rendered":"Weight Watchers endorses McDonald’s"},"content":{"rendered":"
Weight Watchers endorses McDonald’s<\/p>\n

<\/b>I could spend all day listing the problems with the Weight Watchers "lifestyle."<\/p>\n

But I don’t have to bother — because now I’ve got just two words that sum it all up: Chicken McNuggets.<\/p>\n

The infamous diet cult has teamed up with McDonald’s in New Zealand, slapping their logo on approved meals: the six-piece McNugget, Filet-O-Fish and some awful-sounding thing called a Sweet Chilli Seared Chicken Wrap.<\/p>\n

Blech.<\/p>\n

These meals — which include diet soda and a salad — are each worth 6.5 "points" in Weight Watchers’ bizarre food rationing system, which allows people to eat any hunk of junk they want if they stay within their daily point targets.<\/p>\n

With dieters allowed between 18 and 40 points per day, that means you could eat up to 36 Chicken McNuggets — along with six salads and six sodas — every single day, and still be faithful to your Weight Watchers "diet."<\/p>\n

And that’s not all! Don’t forget, Weight Watchers allows members to "earn" more points by exercising… so why stop at 36 McNuggets? Jump on the treadmill and you can eat ’em all day, then brag about it at your weekly AA-style confessional meetings.<\/p>\n

Even if by some strange miracle you managed to lose weight that way, do you honestly believe you’d be healthy?<\/p>\n

Never sponsoring McDiets,<\/p>\n

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weight Watchers endorses McDonald’s I could spend all day listing the problems with the Weight Watchers "lifestyle." But I don’t have to bother — because now I’ve got just two words that sum it all up: Chicken McNuggets. The infamous diet cult has teamed up with McDonald’s in New Zealand, slapping their logo on approved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}